September 16 – 17, 2014, Kelowna, B.C.
Rotary Centre for the Arts.
The UBC Okanagan Institute for Biodiversity, Resilience, and Ecosystem Services “BRAES”
and
The Okanagan Basin Water Board “OBWB”
will host
The Water & Biodiversity Forum
Wed. Sept 18th 4:30 PM – EME 1202- Nature’s Role as municipal Infrastructure – Emanuel Machado
Dear BRAES members and friends don’t miss this talk!
Emanuel Machado will talk about how the Town of Gibsons B.C. was the first North American municipality to manage natural assets, using asset management, financial management and ecology principles that are systematically applied to managing engineered assets. The rationale is that the services provided by these systems, in the form of rainwater management, flood control and water purification, have tangible value to the community.(Abstract and poster attached)
”Nature’s role as municipal infrastructure”
Visitor Speaker: Emanuel Machado
Chief Administrative Officer
Town of Gibsons, B.C.
Wednesday, September 18th, 2019
4:30 – 6:00 p.m. | EME 1202 UBCO
EME 1202 is located in the Engineering, Management and Education building at the UBC Okanagan Campus
Beautiful Destruction: Using Art to Grapple with the Alberta Tar/Oil Sands
Louis Helbig, author of the book Beautiful Destruction, will be speaking in the BRAES Classroom Speaker Series on October 1st, 2015, 11:30-12:30, room TBA.
Louis Helbig brings an eclectic background to his work. He competed internationally on Canada’s national cross country ski team, flew bush planes in rural BC, holds an MSc from the London School of Economics, and has worked as a cabinet minister’s advisor, an economist, and a university lecturer. He left Canada’s Department of Foreign Affairs in 2006 to become a full-time artist.
Louis Helbig’s work is published in periodicals around the world. His art work is held in collections in Europe, North America and Asia.
Beautiful Destruction is published by Rocky Mountain Books. His book, with its stunning imagery of the industrial development in the forests of Northern Alberta and its unprecedented inclusion of 16 essays by prominent individuals with very different ideas, is helping to change how Canadians and the world view, understand and discuss the oil/tar sands. In Canada it is helping defuse a highly polarized, divisive issue and create space for substantive, meaningful discussion of the oil/tar sands. Internationally, it is raising awareness of a massive, largely unknown industrial project in the Canadian wilderness at the centre of one of the dilemmas of our time: grappling with the realities and contradictions of climate change versus a petroleum driven global economy.